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Download full textCongress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1986
An Employment and Housing Subcommittee hearing on home-based work focused on typically female clerical workers. The following women were found to face obstacles to conventional 9-to-5 jobs: women needing child care, displaced homemakers who lack job training and experience, rural women, disabled women, and older women who encounter job…
Descriptors: Career Education, Clerical Workers, Day Care, Employed Women
Heller, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
In most institutions, the faculty hiring process discourages affirmative action. The determination of top administrators is a key factor in success. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Affirmative Action, College Environment
Peer reviewedBooth, Rosemary; Smith, Teresa L. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1995
Case study presents downsizing from one individual's perspective. Suggests the following strategies and procedures for reducing the negative effect of downsizing on employees: planning in advance, developing effective communications, centralizing decision making, and educating personnel specialists and managers. Includes five appendixes. (JBJ)
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Counseling, Case Studies, Corporations
Fontaine, Ligeia Z. – AAUW Outlook, 1990
Unprecedented numbers of women are altering the workplace dramatically. Issues to which employers, government, and educational and support institutions must respond include education and training, economic security, employment policies and practices, family and elder care, and aging workers. (SK)
Descriptors: Administrators, Age Discrimination, Caregivers, Child Rearing
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
This paper examines the state of employment opportunities for women and minorities in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Statistics are presented to illustrate the low representation of women and minorities in professional positions within the FBI and suggestions are made for improving the employment status of these groups. Major areas…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Peer reviewedBoone, Jerry N. – Change, 1988
A description of the status of college faculty in China looks at their number, composition, academic qualifications, tendency toward inbreeding, workload, salaries, retirement system, employment stability, lifestyle, and social standing. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Developing Nations, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Alabama State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. – 1979
This report examines employment opportunities for women and minorities in the Alabama State government. The employment actions of State officials in the wake of the United States versus Frazer decision in which the State was found guilty of discrimination against blacks are also examined. Comments made by George C. Wallace and other State…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Court Litigation, Employment Opportunities
Horstkotte, Hermann – BASIS-INFO, 1998
As in many other industrialized countries, advances in computer technology are transforming Germany's industrial society into an information and services society. Increasingly fewer jobs are available in traditional industries and in the public sector. In the 1990s, Germany's trade unions and employers' associations have experienced steady…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Economic Change, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns
Nebraska State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. – 1979
This report examines the state of employment opportunity for women and minorities in Omaha, Nebraska. The economic setting of Omaha is described. The two key segments of affirmative action in Omaha, recruitment and career ladder opportunities, are discussed. The role of pre-employment programs such as the job service, schools, apprenticeship…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Business, Community Organizations, Employment Opportunities
Butler, Eric Payne; Darr, James – 1980
A series of roundtable discussions, designed to bring together employers and educators in small and informal sessions to discuss youth employment and related issues, was held in Birmingham, Hartford, Los Angeles, Houston, and Chicago. The discussions yielded policy implications in five major areas. These are access to the private sector,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Employer Attitudes
